We facilitate the exchange of pluriversal knowledges in universities in Abya Yala (the Americas), to counterpoint epistemic erasures in academia, with a focus on Indigenous, Black and Maroon peoples and knowledges, currently vivid in villages ---aldeias, aldeas -- maroons -- quilombos, palenques, cumbes -- and urban territories.

This initiative has been inspired by the emergence of Indigenous universities, in specific the Centro Universitario del Pueblo Xhidza, a Zapoteco university which first steps started in 2012 where we now call Santa Maria Yaviche, in Oaxaca, México, and whose call for the first cohort in communal engineering (enginería comunal) started in 2017. While the inclusion of Black and Indigenous people in western universities is an urgent step in decolonizing academia, there is the crucial need of reverting epistemic hierarchies to learn with Black and Indigenous science and technology, oral traditions, arts, literature and other forms of knowledges.